Activity Report 1994-2008
EMERGENCY
Every year war and poverty destroy the lives of millions of people. In today’s conflicts, 90% of the victims are civilians.
EMERGENCY is an independent and neutral organisation. EMERGENCY provides high quality and free of charge medical and surgical assistance to victims of war, landmines and poverty. EMERGENCY promotes a culture of peace, solidarity and respect for human rights.
All EMERGENCY facilities are designed, built and run by specialised international personnel, who train local staff.
Surgery
Medicine
Rehabilitation
Surgery for victims of war and landmines
Internal Medicine
Physiotherapy
Emergency and Trauma Surgery
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Prosthesis Production
General Surgery
Neonatology
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Paediatrics
Vocational training and cooperative workshops for physically disabled
Orthopaedic Surgery
Interventional Cardiology
Paediatric and Adult Cardiac Surgery
First Aid Primary Health Care
Since 1994, over three million patients have been treated in EMERGENCY clinics, hospitals and rehabilitation centres located in war-torn areas.
Afghanistan In 1999, in Anabah, a village in the Panjshir Valley, EMERGENCY transformed military barracks into a surgical centre for war victims. In order to respond to the needs of the local people, the centre’s activities progressively expanded to include emergency surgery and trauma care. In 2003, paediatric and internal medicine units as well as a maternity ward were built next to the main centre. The centre provides maternity and neonatal assistance to women and newborns in an area that has one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. An itinerant prenatal health care programme was put in place for women in the most inaccessible villages. In the Spring of 2001, EMERGENCY opened a second centre in Kabul that has become the trauma care centre of reference for the entire country. In 2003, a six-bed intensive care unit was created, and in 2005 a CAT Scan (CT) unit was installed. In September 2004, EMERGENCY opened a third surgical centre in Lashkar-gah, the provincial capital of Helmand in the south of the country. The hospital is named after Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and humanitarian. It is the only medical facility offering free high quality health care assistance in an area devastated by war. In the areas most mined or where there is no health care assistance available, EMERGENCY is present through a network of First Aid Posts (FAP) which are open 24/7 and are connected to the hospitals. Ambulance service is provided for the most urgent cases. Since 2001, EMERGENCY has also provided health care assistance to the inmates of the major prisons in the country. China
Uzbekistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan
Anabah Kabul
Afghanistan Lashkar-gah Pakistan
Iran
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Anabah, the Panjshir Valley
Surgical and Medical Centre Opened: December 1999 Activities: Surgery for war and landmine victims Emergency Surgery Paediatrics Facilities: Emergency Department, Outpatient Department, 2 Operating Theatres, Intensive Care Unit, SurgicalMedical Wards, Physiotherapy, Radiology, Laboratory and Blood Bank, Pharmacy, Classrooms, Playroom, Auxiliary Facilities, Maintenance Department. Number of Beds: 70 Local staff: 196 As of December 2008: Admissions: 16,969 Outpatient consultations: 85,829 Surgical operations: 11,891
Anabah, the Panjshir Valley
Maternity Centre Opened: June 2003 Activities: Obstetrics and Gynaecology Neonatal Care Facilities: Emergency Department, Outpatient Department, Operating Theatre, Intensive Care Unit, Patient Wards, Nursery, Ultrasound, Delivery Room, Technical and Auxiliary Facilities shared with the Surgical-Medical Centre. Number of Beds: 25 Local staff: 35 As of December 2008: Admissions: 7,759 Outpatient consultations: 35,289 Surgical operations: 1,570 Births: 5,098
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Kabul
Surgical Centre for War Victims Opened: April 2001 Activities: Surgery for war and landmine victims Emergency and Trauma Surgery Facilities: Emergency Department, Outpatient Department, 2 Operating Theatres, Sterilization, Intensive Care Unit, Subintensive Care Unit, Surgical Wards, Physiotherapy, CT Scan, Radiology, Laboratory and Blood Bank, Pharmacy, Classrooms, Playroom, Auxiliary Facilities, Maintenance Department. Number of Beds: 95 Local staff: 257 As of December 2008: Admissions: 18,337 Outpatient consultations: 55,449 Surgical operations: 22,083
Lashkar-gah
Surgical Centre for War Victims Opened: September 2004 Activities: Surgery for war and landmine victims Emergency and Trauma Surgery Facilities: Emergency Department, Outpatient Department, 2 Operating Theatres, Sterilization, Intensive Care Unit, Surgical Wards, Physiotherapy, Radiology, Laboratory and Blood Bank, Pharmacy, Classrooms, Playroom, Auxiliary Facilities, Maintenance Department. Number of Beds: 70 Local staff: 185 As of December 2008: Admissions: 7,553 Outpatient consultations: 44,724 Surgical operations: 8,643 EMERGENCY www.emergency.it
Afghanistan
First Aid Posts (FAP) and Primary Health Clinics Number: 29 Locations: Abdara, Ahangaran, Anabah, Anjuman, Bagram, Bazarak, Changaram, Charikar, Dara, Darband, Dashty Rewat, Ghazni, Grishk, Gulbahar, Horaty, Kapisa, Khinch, Kohi-safi, Koklamy, Logar, Mirbachakot, Paryan, Rokha, Said Khil, Sangi Khan, Sayad and Shutul (where a mobile clinic is also operative). EMERGENCY also offers health care at the Juvenile Rehabilitation Centre and the Tahi Mashkan orphanage in Kabul. Local staff: 210 As of December 2008: Patients transferred: 18,983 Outpatient consultations: 1,646,742
Prison Programmes Duab Prison: 694 patients examined and treated from 2001 to 2003 Shebergan Prison: 13,338 patients examined and treated from May 2002 to June 2004 Lashkar-gah Prison: 1,880 patients examined and treated from February 2006 to December 2007 Prisons in Kabul (Governmental Jail, Investigation Department, Pol-e-Charki): 171,244 patients examined and treated as of December 2008 Local staff: 25
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Cambodia The EMERGENCY Surgical Centre for War Victims was established in Battambang in 1998, to provide free high quality surgical assistance and rehabilitation to victims of war and landmines. The Centre also provides plastic and reconstructive surgery for patients affected by polio, congenital malformations and burns. In 2005, following a memorandum of understanding signed with the Ministry of Health of Cambodia, the EMERGENCY hospital began to admit all trauma patients and other life-threatening surgical emergencies. After the closure of the department of traumatology at the provincial hospital, the EMERGENCY Surgical and Trauma Centre has become the referral facility for the entire province. In 2006, a new physical rehabilitation department for hospitalized patients was opened. The international staff is engaged in training programmes for local personnel by offering courses for physiotherapists, nurses, and specialised surgeons from the University of Phnom-Penh. In order to cope with the high number of landmine victims among the refugees returning from Thailand, a field programme in the northern Samlot region was established in 1999. EMERGENCY set up four First Aid Posts (FAP) and a referral system to connect the remote and heavily mined Samlot district with the Surgical Centre in Battambang. A fifth FAP was opened in January 2000 in Tasanh, with a ward equipped for the treatment of malaria, which is endemic in this part of the country. Each FAP is open 24/7, and an ambulance provides transfer of urgent cases to the EMERGENCY hospital. In 2003, the management of four FAP was transferred to the local authorities; however, EMERGENCY continues to support all activities. EMERGENCY still directly manages the O’Ttiak FAP in Samlot province providing basic health care services.
Laos
Thailand
Battambang Samlot Cambodia Phnom Penh
Gulf of Thailand EMERGENCY www.emergency.it
Vietnam
Battambang
Surgical Centre Opened: July 1998 Activities: Surgery for war and landmine victims Emergency and Trauma Surgery Orthopaedic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Facilities: Emergency Department, Outpatient Department, 3 Operating Theatres, Sterilization, Intensive Care Unit, Surgical Wards, Physiotherapy, Radiology, Laboratory and Blood Bank, Pharmacy, Classrooms, Playroom, Auxiliary Facilities, Maintenance Department. Number of Beds: 107 Local staff: 177 As of December 2008: Admissions: 22,345 Outpatient consultations: 80,154 Surgical operations: 23,807
O’Tatiak
First Aid Post (FAP) Opened: 1999 Local staff: 4 As of December 2008: Patients referred: 4,295 Outpatient consultations: 229,452* *This figure also includes consultations at the FAP in O’Rotkroh, Chamlong Kouy, Tasanh e O’Chom before the facilities were transferred to the local authorities.
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Iraq EMERGENCY has been working in Iraq since March 1995, initially in the village of Choman on the Iraq/Iran border. The Sulaimaniya and Erbil Surgical Centres opened in 1996 and 1998, respectively, offering free high-quality surgical assistance to victims of landmines and war. Both centres were later equipped with specialized units for burn and spinal injury patients. As of 2005, EMERGENCY treated over 330,000 people at the Centres in Erbil and Sulaimaniya and the network of First Aid Posts (FAP). In May 2005, after 9 years of training the national staff, the management of the Sulaimaniya and Erbil Surgical Centres and their network of FAP were transferred to the national health authorities. The Centres are now fully integrated into the national health care system, offering highly qualified assistance to all patients free of charge. In 1998, EMERGENCY opened the Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration Centre in Sulaimaniya. This Centre provides lower and upper limb prosthetic services, physical rehabilitation and vocational training to the physically disabled, and assists them in starting professional cooperative workshops. The Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration Centre is still managed by EMERGENCY.
Turkey
Sulaimaniya Syria
Iran
Iraq Baghdad Jordan
Saudi Arabia
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Kuwait
Sulaimaniya
Rehabilitation Centre Opened: February 1998 Activities: Physical Rehabilitation Prostheses and Orthoses Production Facilities: Patient Wards, Physiotherapy, Indoor Swimming Pool, Orthopaedic and Prosthetic Workshops, Auxiliary Facilities. Number of Beds: 41 Local staff: 92 As of December 2008: Admissions: 5,139 Sessions of Physiotherapy: 33,919 Upper Limb Prostheses: 642 Lower Limb Prostheses: 4,590 Orthoses: 680
Sulaimaniya
Social Reintegration Programme Opened: 1998 Activities: Vocational training and development of small business cooperatives for the physically disabled Facilities: Classrooms, Vocational Training Workshops (Professional Sewing, Leatherwork, Woodwork, Light Carpentry, Shoemaking), Auxiliary Facilities. Trainee class graduates: 596 Cooperatives set up: 202
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Sierra Leone In late 2000, EMERGENCY initiated a Surgical Programme to assist war victims. An abandoned medical clinic in the district of Goderich, on the outskirts of Freetown, was transformed and expanded into a Surgical Centre, with the addition of new buildings. This is where EMERGENCY provides treatment to war trauma, and orthopaedic patients. The admission criteria have now been expanded to include all life-threatening surgical emergencies. In spring 2002, a Paediatric Outpatient Department was opened in order to manage the growing number of paediatric patients. In 2003, the government of Sierra Leone provided more land where EMERGENCY built two new wards to expand its paediatric activities. Children admitted to the EMERGENCY Centre mainly suffer from severe malaria, acute anaemia and respiratory tract infections. Since 2005, a programme was launched at the Paediatric Centre to counter malnutrition. The programme also provides hygiene and nutrition classes to mothers. In 2006, EMERGENCY launched a new programme for esophageal endoscopic dilatation procedures to address accidental injuries related to ingestion of caustic lye, a chemical used in homemade soap production, a practice prevalent throughout Sierra Leone. Currently, EMERGENCY’s surgical and paediatric centres in Sierra Leone are the only medical facilities offering free high standard health care services, and training of surgeons and anesthesiologists in a country still greatly suffering from the consequences of a long and harsh war.
Guinea
Sierra Leone Freetown Goderich
Atlantic Ocean Liberia EMERGENCY www.emergency.it
Goderich
Surgical Centre Opened: November 2001 Activities: Emergency and Trauma Surgery Orthopaedic and Reconstructive Surgery Facilities: Emergency Department, Outpatient Department, 2 Operating Theatres, Sterilization, Intensive Care Unit, Patient Wards, Physiotherapy, Radiology, Laboratory and Blood Bank, Pharmacy, Classrooms, Playroom, Auxiliary Facilities. Number of Beds: 99 Local staff: 263 As of December 2008: Admissions: 15,922 Outpatient consultations: 137,610 Surgical operations: 14,115
Goderich
Paediatric Centre Opened: April 2002 Activities: Paediatrics Treatment of Tropical and Infectious Diseases Facilities: Outpatient Department, Medical Ward, Technical and Auxiliary Facilities shared with the Goderich Surgical Centre. Number of Beds: 16 Local staff: 8 As of December 2008: Admissions: 6,296 Outpatient consultations: 82,385
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Sri Lanka Immediately following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, an assessment was conducted by EMERGENCY and a few days later, surgical instruments and medical consumables were supplied to the Kalutara General Hospital enabling it to resume activities. Soon thereafter, EMERGENCY was inundated with donations from private individuals throughout Italy. As EMERGENCY began responding that disaster relief was not part of its mission, donors insisted that EMERGENCY reconsider. They were aware of EMERGENCY’s track record and trusted it to be the best organization to put their donations to good use. Assessments for where and how to best aid the numerous victims affected by this catastrophric natural disaster were then conducted. In collaboration with a local organization, the Tamil Rehabilitaion Organisation, EMERGENCY established an integrated programme to assist the coastal village of Punochchimunai, a Muslim minority community, in the eastern district of Batticaloa. The first phase of this programme, called Back to the Sea, was completed at the end of July 2005. EMERGENCY distributed motor boats, canoes, and fishing nets to the community’s fishermen so they could return to work. School kits were also supplied to the local school children. A housing project was also approved and construction began on 91 brick homes for the homeless. Recurring riots and hostilities between the government and civilians caused significant delays, even halting construction work for several months. The housing project was finally completed in September 2008.
Bay of Bengal
Gulf of Mannar
Punochchimunai Colombo
Kalutara
Sri Lanka EMERGENCY www.emergency.it
Sudan From the spring of 2004 to the summer of 2005, EMERGENCY provided assistance to the Mellit and Al Fashir hospitals in North Darfur. EMERGENCY built a surgical ward at the Al Fashir Hospital which is comprised of two operating theaters, a sterilisation room and a 20-bed ward. Approximately two million refugees live in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps under miserable conditions on the outskirts of Khartoum with no access to basic medical services. EMERGENCY opened a paediatric centre in the Mayo IDP camp in 2005. It is the only facility providing free of charge basic health care to approximately 300,000 people. In addition to other clinical activities, the centre also serves as a day hospital with an outpatient ward and with an ambulance to transfer the more serious cases to the surrounding city hospitals. Community Health Promoters (CHP) carry out follow-up home visits as well as health and hygiene programmes. These services have been up and running since the spring of 2006. Local community members are selected and trained as CHP by EMERGENCY’s international staff. Maternity/pre-natal screenings are run at the centre, as well as immunisation programmes for children ages five and under. In 2007, EMERGENCY opened the Salam Cardiac Surgery Centre located in Soba, a village which runs along the Blue Nile, about 20 kilometers from Khartoum. The Salam Centre, meaning peace in Arabic, is the first free of charge cardiac surgery hospital of excellence on the African continent. It is a technologically advanced centre, built with innovative techniques, and is environmentally friendly. The Centre is clinically and administratively managed by EMERGENCY. It provides free, specialised cardiac treatment to Sudanese patients and to those coming from neighboring countries. Patients have come for treatment from Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. In 2008, patients from as far as northern Iraq, referred by their Ministry of Health, underwent surgery at the Centre. Egypt Libya
Chad
Khartoum
Eritrea
Mayo
SUDAN Ethiopia Central African Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo
Uganda Kenya
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Mayo, Khartoum
Paediatric Centre Opened: December 2005 Activities: Paediatrics Paediatric First Aid Facilities: Outpatient Clinics, Patient Ward, Laboratory, Auxiliary Services. Number of Beds: 6 Local staff: 24 As of 31 December 2008: Outpatient consultations: 56,147 Patients transferred: 1,039 Patients admitted for observation: 2,092
EMERGENCY also launched a paediatric regional project in May 2007 to build specialised paediatric centres in Sudan’s neighboring countries. In addition to providing free of charge basic paediatric health care at these centres, screenings and follow-up visits for cardiac patients waiting to undergo surgery at the Salam Centre will also be carried out. The first of these centres will open in Bangui, capital of Central African Republic in March 2009.
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Khartoum
The Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery Opened: April 2007 Activities: Paediatric Cardiac Surgery Adult Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Facilities: 3 Operating Theatres, Intensive Care Unit, Subintensive Care Unit, Surgical Wards, Outpatient Departments, Catheterization Laboratory, Ultra Sound, Radiology, Laboratory and Blood Bank, Physiotherapy, Pharmacy, Technical and Auxiliary Facilities, Repairs & Maintenance, Guesthouse for relatives of patients. Local staff: 308 Number of Beds: 63 As of 31 December 2008: Admissions: 1,555 Outpatient consultations: 12,107 Cardiology examinations: 6,526 Surgical interventions: 1,018 Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology procedures: 376
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Italy Serious violations of human rights affect the daily lives of migrants coming to Italy. In April 2006, EMERGENCY opened a medical facility which offers social and health care services to any patient, regardless of immigration status, seeking treatment in the following departments: general medicine, paediatrics, dermatology, dentistry, ophthalmology and otolaryngology, obstetrics and gynecology, cardiology, psychiatry and psychology. The volunteer medical staff at the clinic is comprised of 25 dentists, 4 optometrist, 12 internists, 1 otolaryngologist, 1 dermatologist, 2 paediatricians, 3 nurses, 4 gynecologists, 4 cardiologists, 1 psychiatrist and 1 psychologist. The free of charge services are intended for immigrants, but are available to anyone in need. The health care treatment is made possible thanks to the collaboration of a volunteer corps of medical personnel committed to integrating national health care and to ensuring the right of free high standard health care to all. As of December 31, 2008, 4,474 patients from 62 different countries have been registered for treatment at the clinic.
Palermo
Programme for Migrants Outpatient Clinic Opened: April 2006 Activities: Cardiology Obstetrics and Gynaecology Dermatology Otolaryngology Infectious Diseases Paediatrics Basic Health Care Psychiatry and Psychology Dentistry Radiology Ophtalmology Facilities: Dental, General Medicine, Eye Surgery, Outpatient, OB-GYN, Outpatient Radiology, Infectious Disease, Services. Local staff: 6 As of December 2008: Outpatient consultations: 21,272
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COMPLETED PROGRAMMES EMERGENCY builds and runs permanent facilities and trains national medical staff. The facilities are transferred to the local health authorities once they reach clinical and financial independence. 1994 - EMERGENCY renovated and reopened the surgical department of Kigali Hospital in Rwanda. Over a period of four months, surgical assistance was provided to more than 600 victims of war and landmines. A maternity ward was also reopened, where over 2,500 patients received medical and surgical assistance. 1996/2005 - EMERGENCY built the Surgical Centre in Sulaimaniya, in northern Iraq, in order to provide assistance to the victims of war and landmines. The facility includes units for burn and spinal injury patients. In 2005, the management of the Centre and the 22 FAP connected to it, was transferred to the local health authorities. 1998/2005 - EMERGENCY built the Surgical Centre in Erbil, in northern Iraq, to provide assistance to the victims of war and landmines. The facility includes units for burn and spinal injury patients. In 2005, the management of the Centre was transferred to the management of the local health authorities. 1999 - EMERGENCY supported the Jova Jovanovic Zmaj orphanage in Belgrade, Serbia. 1999/2003 - EMERGENCY established 5 FAP in the district of Samlot, in Cambodia, in order to provide assistance to the victims of landmines. In 2003, the management of the FAP of O’Rotkroh, Chamlong Kouy, Tasanh and O’Chom was transferred to the local health authorities. 2000 - EMERGENCY sent a surgical team to Eritrea in response to a request from the Italian Office for Cooperation and Development.
During the two month mission the EMERGENCY team worked in the Mekane Hiwet Hospital in Asmara, treating victims of the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. 2001 - EMERGENCY built a Prosthesis and Rehabilitation Centre in Diana, in northern Iraq. The management of the Centre was transferred to the local health authorities. 2001 - EMERGENCY launched an aid programme for war widows, distributing cattle to 400 families in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. 2003/04 - EMERGENCY supplied drugs to Casa de la mujer, a network of women’s centres providing assistance to women suffering from cancer and diabetes in Nicaragua. 2003 - EMERGENCY supplied the Al-Kindi Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, with generator fuel, medicine and medical consumables. Tons of medical supplies were also donated to the public hospital in Karbala, south of Baghdad. 2003 - EMERGENCY set up a Prosthesis and Rehabilitation Centre in Medea, Algeria. An existing clinic within the public hospital compound was renovated and equipped. EMERGENCY trained Algerian staff to provide specialised care for the physically disabled. The management of the Centre, named Amal hope in Arabic, was transferred to the local health authorities in 2004. 2003 - EMERGENCY built the Prosthesis and Rehabilitation Centre in Dohuk, northern Iraq. The management of the Centre was handed over to the local health authorities. 2003 - EMERGENCY refurbished two health centres in Benguela Province, Angola, and equipped them with medicine and medical consumables.
EMERGENCY ran the programme and trained Angolan medical staff until February 2004. 2003/04 - EMERGENCY sent a surgical team to work in the orthopaedic department of Jenin Public Hospital, Palestine. EMERGENCY also built a new orthopaedic ward, a new department of physiotherapy, a hospital kitchen and cafeteria, and also carried out medical staff training. 2003/07 - EMERGENCY launched a carpet-making entrepreneur facility, to promote the economic independence and empowerment of women, widows and physically disabled persons living in the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. 2004 - EMERGENCY supplied relief items, water, and medical supplies to community leaders and to the local public hospital in order to support the people of Falluja, Iraq, during the siege of the city. 2004/05 - EMERGENCY rebuilt and equipped the Emergency Surgical Department of the university hospital of Al Fashir in North Darfur, Sudan. The structure includes a surgical block and a 20-bed ward. The management of the department was transferred to the Ministry of Health in August 2005. 2005 - EMERGENCY supplied Kalutara General Hospital in Sri Lanka, with surgical instruments and medical supplies in order to advance clinical activities. 2005/07 - EMERGENCY provided hygiene, disease prevention, and first aid classes to the inmates of the Rebibbia Nuovo Complesso Prison (Rome, Italy). A free of charge tuberculosis screening programme was also launched. Specialised medical assistance was offered in various other prisons located in the Lazio region in Italy.
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EMERGENCY’s Financial Resources EMERGENCY was founded in Italy in 1994 as a nonprofit organization to provide treatment and rehabilitation to the victims of wars and landmines. In 1999 EMERGENCY was officially recognized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Non Governmental Organization (NGO).
EMERGENCY’s funding comes primarily from donations made by numerous private citizens. From May 1994 to December 2007 (the most recently completed fiscal year) EMERGENCY’s total financial resources were 136,621,736 Euros. The average administrative overhead was 5.89% of total budget.
Financial resources managed by EMERGENCY to date:
Year
EURO
1994
435,977
2000
6,200,616
1995
317,828
2001
14,147,638
1996
1,582,883
2002
18,440,738
1997
2,754,334
2003
17,440,944
1998
2,157,363
2004
17,240,225
1999
3,979,566
2005
13,945,171
2006
14,716,032
2007
23,261,986
2008
17,500,000*
*Estimated balance
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To Support EMERGENCY: DONATIONS • Bank wire in favour of EMERGENCY: Ø c/o Banca Popolare dell’Emilia Romagna IBAN IT 41 V 05387 01600 000000713558 Ø c/o Banca Etica, Filiale di Milano IBAN IT 02 X 05018 01600 000000130130 Ø c/o Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena IBAN IT 76 D 01030 01600 000007362036
• Credit Card on-line (on Secure Server) at www.emergency.it (Euros)
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